Few hearts like his with virtue warmed,
Few heads with knowledge so informed;
If there's another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none he made the best of this.
Mr. John Dove kept an inn at Mauchline called the "Whiteford Arms," and the poet pays his respects to him in the following fashion:
ON JOHN DOVE, INNKEEPER.
Here lies Johnny Pidgeon;
What was his religion?
Whae'er desires to ken,